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Purchase no longer required for Hawken Early Access

Hawken is fully free-to-play once more, as a purchase is no longer required to enter the game's Early Access.

Adhesive Games' mech-based shooter Hawken recently hit Steam Early Access a few weeks ago. However, it did so somewhat at the expense of its free-to-play status, since new players needed to purchase a bundle to participate. This is no longer the case and the game is now completely free-to-play once again.

Meteor Entertainment community manager Micah Monfrini had previously stated that requiring a purchase was the best way to control the game's server load. He has since posted on the Hawken website that Steam users can now play Hawken for free directly from the game's Steam page. Bundles will still be available for purchase, with the exception of the Nemesis Bundle, which will no longer be listed after today.

The full version of Hawken is expected to release later this year.

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what is video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?

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